Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for today: Redfield winter scene

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    Overlooking the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Redfield was one of the major figures in Pennsylvania Impressionism, painting in and around New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ. Redfield loved to paint in the winter. All of his paintings are highly textural, but his snow scenes in particular are fascinatingly three dimensional — slathered with rills, troughs…

  • Self-portraits #8

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    More non-photographic, non-electronic, non-iPhone “selfies” self-portrayals. (Images above: Giorgio de Chirico, Annibale Carracci, Ferencné Paczka, Edward Hopper, Ilya Repin, Harry Anderson, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Merritt Chase)

  • Sorolla and America

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    The Meadows Museum in Dallas, in cooperation with he San Diego Museum of Art and Fundación MAPFRE, has assembled over 100 works by the Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida for an exhibition titled “Sorolla and America“. The exhibition will be on display at the Meadows Museum until April 19, 2014; it then moves to…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Courbet's View of Ornans

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    View of Ornans, Gustave Courbet Painted in the 1850s. Just in case we’re tempted to think the broken color and painterly surfaces of Impressionism sprang from nowhere. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen, then zoom or download arrow.

  • Jeremy Lipking (update)

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    WhenI first wrote about contemporary American painter Jeremy Lipking back in 2006, I was struck in particular with his subtle and masterful understanding of value, and its relationship to color. That impression has only been reinforced by the work I’ve seen from Lipking since then. His figures and faces, along with an occasional still life…

  • Self-portraits #7

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    “Selfies” were in the news again today, as the press evidently felt that the U.S. president taking one of himself and some other world leaders at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a newsworthy event (sigh). Here are some more artists’ “selfies”, done with brush or graphite. (Images above: Diego Rivera, George Tooker, Frits Thaulow, Jean…